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Attackers backdoor trusted AWS integrations to steal secrets
Wiz researchers uncovered the secret-stealing supply-chain attack
Researchers pwn automakers’ Android apps to remotely unlock cars, honk horns
Pair of researchers chain WAF bypasses and default logins to command vehicles in Australia and the US
Insight about how 'nature makes no leaps' promises better robot predictions
Machine learning researchers have developed a technique that allows world models to make better predictions about how objects will behave.
Microsoft takes three decades to make Sticky Keys less sticky
Windows preview adds a 'don't ask again' option to accessibility prompts, sparing users a trip through Settings
NASA keeps its PROMISE to raid Mars testbeds for parts
Cut-and-shut trundlebot with spiffy new paint job meant to be headed to the Moon in 2028
Microsoft's Azure Linux gets 470-plus security fixes in one almighty patching session
A mountain of CVEs, a certificate cleanup, and yet more work for Microsoft's patching teams
Who Gives A Crap? Hackers, apparently, after toilet paper maker's customer data exposed
UK shoppers caught up in third-party security mess, and nobody knows whether the data was flushed away
The AI bubble can wait, but your exit plan can't
Infrastructure spending outruns measurable returns, with supplier finances key to judging when trouble arrives
Outlook.com bounces legit emails as Microsoft's authentication crackdown goes sideways
Missing DMARC or wobbly SPF means your mail may be treated as suspicious
Who can still open your files after they've left?
EVENT: Peers compare how they find the shares nobody closed, over dinner with The Register in London.
Japanese homeware giant pulls online store after cloud breach puts 7.7M records at risk
No reopening date as orders face delays and some customers are told to refuse deliveries to cancel purchases
Datacenters, Elon Musk, and AI are all on the chopping block once Congress changes hands in 2027
Rage, rage against the dying of the right
AI echo chambers and sanity in tech leadership: Three case studies
Altman, Torvalds, Yen. One has got his head screwed on. The others could do with some grounding
Portal breach at Germany's top university exposes every registered user's password
Stolen sysadmin credentials enabled a follow-on attack on the campus management system
AI Slop FM radio experiment puts machines on trial, one dodgy tune at a time
Music fan from Wales lets listeners pit AI-generated songs against human bops – including toilet operas and HR protest songs
Memory crunch makes refurbished kit look a lot less secondhand
Soaring component costs and warranties of up to three years give buyers more reason to consider pre-loved hardware
Dev error bricked 600 PCs, caused $1M CD-ROM write-off
One lucky engineer scored a free dinner during the frantic fix, the rest got to explain their mistake
Linus Torvalds sees signs AI-prompted patch flood has peaked
Fixes are arriving faster than new bug reports for one major Linux project
Huawei says it’s made a 100 percent Chinese PC
PLUS: Japan declares infosec emergency; Apple makes biggest school Mac sale, ever, anywhere, in the Philippines; And more!
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits affair with possible Chinese asset
Admits to affair after company board opens probe into alleged contact with possible Chinese asset who bought GPUs in bulk
Doom delivers five minutes of terminal violence on an IBM mainframe
Browser demo renders the classic shooter in ASCII, with no login required and considerable squinting encouraged
Internet governance about to get its quadrennial stress test at ITU meeting
278 proposals on table, and some fear they might shift power to governments
Fireworks says you’re wasting money on AI unless you’re using all the models
The case for managed inference, or automatically routing queries to the right model for the right job
NHS breach helpline left staff carrying a 'significant emotional burden'
Team given a day's notice faced distressed callers, safeguarding decisions during project that stretched from 2 weeks to 11
Windows takes a break at UK motorway services
Bad drivers behind the wheel or underneath the operating system – neither is ideal
Agents reveal secrets when offered to team up with each other
If you wouldn't put it on GitHub, don't give models access to it
PyTorch 2.15 tackles the 'one bad GPU' problem
Technical debt shoveled aside to make large-scale AI training more resilient
US air traffic control enters the 21st century, starts to abandon floppy disks
The FAA will need to come up with more money to finish the wider overhaul, though
Mac lookalikes multiply as Linux raids Apple's wardrobe
New and revived desktops promise Cupertino polish, but our quick tests found a few seams showing
Oak Ridge labs gets hybrid quantum-HPC system to test qubit error correction
Co-design platform for quantum error correction melds IBM quantum kit with AMD CPUs and GPUs
RIP to the world’s ugliest car
Who'd'a thunk a giant steel box could make such a flop? Us, that's who - and probably you, too
DoJ's 'Super Intelligence Task Force' up and running
Organization responsible for countering anyone who wishes to scupper the US's ambition for AI supremacy
Crowd fave Linux Mint update approaches, fresh from autumn release of Cinnamon desktop
Mint 27 to land before Christmas, with stable Wayland display upgrades, as punters try out Cinnamon 6.8
Blue Origin unveils more thrust, less haste as New Glenn slips to 2027
Staff memo pushes return to flight into January, overshadowing third-stage and engine announcements
DigiCert admits 16-month security lapse exposed customer information
Botched server move left the door open, and DigiCert took months to notice someone had wandered in
Home Office cloud services contract may net AWS £1B
Planning notice puts renewal at nearly twice the 2023 value, just as Whitehall frets about US tech dependence
Bank of England pours cold water on AI productivity boom
Turns out throwing billions at GPUs doesn't automatically mean everyone gets more done
UK ministers seek powers to investigate when AI agents are let off the leash
Cyber Security and Resilience Bill could pave way for searches, seizures, and inspections when operators lose control of automated systems
Britain's tech ambitions depend on minerals made in China, MPs warn
Committee can't confidently tick off any of government's ten supply security tests, with alternatives a decade away
NHS wants a second opinion on Palantir's glowing self-assessments
Supplier told to clear benefit claims with health chiefs, though enforcing approval could prove tricky
Safari's Autofill feature may be distorting time
Repeated reports about inaccurate form filling have lingered for years
Hospital gave very sick doctor a special PC for his very personal use
Support chap told to either allow blatant policy violations or find a new job
AI agents are a 'bane' for some website operators, says Cloudflare
CEO says sovereigns probably exploited PHP2SHELL ages ago, and suggests containers are dead
Threat actor targets Indian fintechs on weekends when defenders aren’t watching
CERT-IN warns of ‘significant escalation’ in AI-powered attacks, some after victims tried to improve defences
Feds warn grocers: Don't chill on cyber defenses as freezer hacking spree heats up
No documented attacks against American supermarkets…yet
AWS Kiro aims to solve identity crisis by adding another identity: bot orchestrator
The cloud giant refits its agentic dev tools for agent orchestration
The White House is apparently a popular residential proxy exit spot
How it got there is another matter entirely
Get root on a musl Linux system by slamming it with an overly long password
Decade-old vulnerability in OpenSSH is now fixed, so get a-patchin'
October crypto-tracker hack: Access cracked, law enforcement tokens packed
Agentic 'on-path attack' went after Chainalysis's tools, which are routinely called upon to assist police investigations
openSUSE Leap 16.1 gives Linux users the right to remain immutable
One installer now offers conventional and read-only systems as separate Micro distro bows out
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Cyber, and promises this one stays within 'rules of engagement'
The latest bug hunting model 'avoided exploiting out-of-scope services over 99 percent of the time', claims House of Altman
Copilot Chat has usage caps, and Microsoft would rather you found them by hitting them
Mystery limits expand for users without the paid add-on, with upgrade prompts ready when features run dry
Tobacco company got smoked by leaving secret recipes on a file share
They denied the data was real...then removed it
Memory makers mint megabucks while buyers beg for mercy
DRAM revenue jumps 369 percent as AI demand keeps supplies tight and prices climbing
Microsoft fixed Excel 2016 copy-paste bug. Then reintroduced it. Now it's fixed again
All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again. Maybe
'Stop dirty datacenters': Europe-wide protests planned demanding building moratorium
Curbing compute farms played a big part in recent US elections, now Euro activists are making their feelings known
Anthropic won't fix a Claude Dispatch flaw that could let attackers execute remote commands across corporate boundaries
From EOP to RCE in six simple steps
New York's Queens Public Library battles ransomware crims: Wi-Fi, checkouts, and website go dark
No gang has claimed the attack on incredible neighborhood resource yet
Norway's aid agency pwned and all users' data is stolen
Norad said it cannot be sure that the details of those in 'conflict areas and authoritarian states' are safe or not
SAP promises to open out data flows in both directions
New commitment to Apache Iceberg and expanded Databricks partnership point to battle ahead over context layer
Royal London plans IT outsourcing shake-up as staff brace for redundancies
IBM deal could see tech jobs shipped to India, with cuts expected before Christmas
When datacenters lose power, generators should kick in. That didn’t happen for Google in London
October outage caused by bad PLC config exposed at a time maintenance work reduced resilience
VMware quietly offers European users extended sales and support for low-end vSphere
Version 8 of Standard and Enterprise Plus will stay alive until October 2028
Microsoft admits certifications can be a drag, launches creds that recognize skills
‘Pro Badges’ don’t require a test, Microsoft awards them by watching you use GitHub
Uber says it alone can make robotaxis pay, hours after Waymo quit its app
Oh, the irony, as platform players fight
Meta brings Conductor on board its model train
Agent orchestration startup gets its exit
Building AI factories at enterprise scale
SPONSORED FEATURE: ASUS wants to scale AI everywhere in the enterprise
Apple turns iCloud into spy cloud, will start looking at public share links
Content shared with anyone who has the URL will be scanned for 'harmful content,' though the iMaker hasn't defined that term
Hey, Siri: Plug into my app like you said you'd do way back in 2024
More than two years after promising it, Apple lets developers test Siri AI app integration
Palantir CEO says it's pioneering an antiwar movement – while happily accepting defense dollars
Alex Karp casts military software as a force for peace while declaring a moral imperative to dominate the market
Fedora 45 is finally finished and fit
After two last-minute delays, it's here and running – albeit with a kernel series already at upstream end of life
Turn your home into a giant crane game with this open source robot
Who needs a humanoid to pick up after you when you can suspend an AI-powered claw from cables near your ceiling?
Boffins use machine-learning tricks to create a starlight dimmer switch
FLIP reveals a planet hidden in Webb data, boosting detection sensitivity by up to 15 times
Bare metal boom: On-prem server sales for HPC and AI up 20% this year
Firms still want kit on-premises, but spike in revenue is as much about increased costs as higher sales
VMware returns to low-end server virtualization with 'vSphere Express'
128-cores max, sold on distributors' marketplaces, and in with a shot of restoring some trust
US gov IT worker pleads guilty to sending Top Secret files to Ethiopia
Help desk technician agrees to minimum 10-year jail term after being caught copying files for more than 2 years
HP Inc hires former GSK boss as CEO
Brit Emma Walsley swaps big pharma for big printer: Prep for PCs, ink, and lots of DRAM-induced headaches
America unites on one issue: Reining in datacenters
The results were particularly stark where voters got to weigh in directly
Watchdog sticks probe into Capita's handling of 1.7 million member civil service pension scheme
Public Accounts Committee talks of 'broken promises' and 'chaos' as 'thousands' of retired folk miss out on money
Cyberattack on French plasma stores is enough to make your blood boil
Attackers reportedly set cold-room controls to 110°C, but safeguards prevented stock losses
Achieving nirvana: Enlightenment 0.28 hits the desktop
Very nearly 30something environment gets spruced up… and there's a new Trinity, too
Windows pushed AI PCs, but now it's hit a wall of RAM prices
Customers sweating assets amid tight budgets, as Microsoft execs get creative with sales pitches
Datacenter operators must win hearts and minds, not just permits
Schneider sees no slowdown despite backlash, but says communities deserve answers on power, water, and noise
China outlines plans for moonshot it hopes to land by 2030
We have go for launch, and the ethernet and Wi-Fi standards that will make it happen
AMD on track to overtake Intel as biggest x86 outfit
CEO says supply chain can cope with surging datacenter and AI demand
Aussie Adobe assailant Canva announces layoffs in re-org affecting 22% of staff
No mention of AI, but a nod to the pace of technological change
North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
'It was not a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident,' exchange says
Microsoft improves Windows 11 performance on 8 GB PCs as RAM prices keep climbing
We've got a hunch the memory crunch is taking a bite out of Windows revenue
Nvidia is happy to take your money whether you're using open or closed models, says Jensen Huang
At Fireworks Forge, a celebration of specialized models
British fintech Revolut slashes AI coding costs 10x by cutting out Claude and going self-hosted
Turns out cheap tokens get engineers doing things that save time, like debugging and tackling Jira tickets
AI policy wonks declare 'sovereign agents' a threat to civilization
These are AI agents that operate outside of human control and 'pursue open-ended, evolving survival'
GSMA warns of growing risks to mobile networks from extreme weather
Mobile comms body wants a joined-up approach from governments and regulators to mitigate downtime
Improved asteroid deflection model runs faster, reveals more doomsday worries
“We expected aim to matter ... What surprised us was how much,' says Sandia physicist Nathan Moore
Password manager mSecure tells users to change passwords, won't say why
Customers left wondering what's been compromised after vendor advises resetting passwords, 2FA and passkeys
GhostBSD 26.2 takes the fright out of FreeBSD with a friendlier installer
Full-disk encryption joins the toolkit, MATE and Xfce stay while Gershwin sits this one out
ShinyHunters hit 850k alumni, donors, students, and fam in last year's Harvard University raid
How about them apples? Plenty of personal + donation data leaked by crims, data-sifting breach site claims a year after attack
Pokémon bakeoff reveals best JavaScript frameworks for AI
Sorry React die-hards, Claude prefers lean HTML-first tools over bloated SPAs
NHS counts Palantir benefits at trusts that say they're not using it
Medact flags 29 disputed entries as ministers weigh £330M deal's future
Drax wants to feed Britain's AI habit with £20B datacenter at biomass power station
But first it needs planning permission, government approval and, rather importantly, a customer